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The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs
Bertrand, Marianne; Hallock, Kevin - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1999
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The Gender Gap in Top Corporate Jobs
Bertrand, Marianne; Hallock, Kevin - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720932
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From Exclusion to Exclusivity : Chinese American Property Ownership and Discrimination in Historical Perspective
Szto, Mary - 2018
discrimination in the US. This paper traces three eras of Chinese property ownership and discrimination. Many Chinese first came to …, and job discrimination. I conclude that we must unearth the past history of property discrimination to address continuing … discrimination, leverage the current investment, and to seek property equity and healing communities for all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931829
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She'-E-O compensation gap : a role congruity view
Wang, Joyce C.; Markóczy, Lívia; Sun, Li; Peng, Mike W. - In: Journal of business ethics : JOBE 159 (2019) 3, pp. 745-760
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Strategies and Structures of European Enterprise
Amatori, Franco; Colli, Andrea - In: Revue économique 58 (2007) 1, pp. 37-57
Alfred Chandler pointed out how us large corporation adapted to expansion of mass consumption by changing from ?functional organisation? (U. Form) to ?operational organisation? (M. Form). This model was systematically introduced in the Western Europe after W.W.II. This adoption of an American...
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European migration, national origin and long-term economic development in the US
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; von Berlepsch, Viola - 2013
Does the nationality of migrants arriving in any particular territory make a difference for long-term economic development? Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to...
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Disruptive effects of natural disasters: The 1906 San Francisco Fire
Schwank, Hanna M. - 2024
Natural disasters are growing in frequency globally. Understanding how vulnerable populations respond to these disasters is essential for effective policy response. This paper explores the short- and long-run consequences of the 1906 San Francisco Fire, one of the largest urban fires in American...
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Agglomeration economies and productivity growth: US cities, 1880-1930
Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - 2015
We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using a new dataset constructed from the Census of Manufactures. We find that increases in specialization were associated with faster productivity growth but that diversity only had...
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Locating the Manhattan housing market: GIS evidence for 1880-1910
Gray, Rowena; Bowman, Rocco - 2020
There is a dearth of systematic information about the historical New York City housing market. We present anew sample containing rental price and characteristic data for almost 10,000 Manhattanunits which was collected from historical newspapers for the period 1880 to 1910. These units were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169083
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Inequality in nineteenth century Manhattan: Evidence from the housing market
Gray, Rowena - 2020
Historical inequality is difficult to measure, especially at the sub-country level and beyond the top income shares. This paper presents new evidence on the level of inequality in Manhattan from 1880 to 1910 using housing rents. Rental prices and characteristics, including geocodable locations,...
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